The European Commission Horizon 2020: Societal Challenges, under the climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials work programme, will shortly be inviting proposals for its H2020-2017 contribution to cross-cutting call – blue growth - demonstrating an ocean of opportunities.

The European Commission Horizon 2020: Societal Challenges, under the climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials work programme, will shortly be inviting proposals for its H2020-SC5-2016 call on specific priority areas.

The UArctic Day provided information about UArctic activities and introduced possibilities for research cooperation and education, and for student exchange. The Day was organized on the 11th of May 2015 by the Thematic Networks and Research Liaison Office located at the Thule Institute, University of Oulu.

Researchers from the Department of Physics of University of Helsinki Dr. Ivan Mammarella and M.Sc. Pavel Alekseychik visited Yugra State University (YSU), Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. They spent few days at the International field station “Mukhrino” collecting and processing data using the eddy covariance method.

The University of Akureyri announces the call for the Nansen Professorship in Arctic Studies. The professorship is a research position aimed at current academics who wish to focus a year in research on Arctic studies. Application deadline: July 1, 2015.

UArctic is launching a call for three intern positions: one at the UArctic International Secretariat (in University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland), one at the UArctic Research Liaison and Thematic Networks Office (in University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland) and one at the UArctic north2north International Mobility Office (in UiT-T...

The Institute of Earth Sciences of Saint Petersburg State University (SPbSU) and University of Tromso (UiT) are providing joint field courses for second year students in summer 2015 as part of their collaboration in the UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Geology.

The UArctic Thematic Network in Arctic Law has been involved in the publication of the new publication, Polar Law and Resources, available from www.norden.org.

The course focusing on sustainable business practices in the High North is organized on 2-8 August 2015 by the Bodø Graduate School of Business, University of Nordland. Application deadline: 25 May 2015.

UArctic Seminar will be held on 28th of May 2015 at the Hokkaido University, Japan, in order to provide information about UArctic, and the possibilities UArctic offers for Japanese universities.